How Well Does High Intelligence Correlate With Career Success?
NOTE FROM JIM:
Does high intelligence correlate with career success? Many organizations have observed not. Do “Highly Gifted” individuals score differently then the “Average Gifted” people in four categories of career related personality attributes: (1) career orientation, (2) work behaviors, (3) social competence, and (4) psychological constitution? The answer to the latter question is yes, but not always favorably.
Yosh Beier, an executive coach and co-founder of Collaborative Coaching LLC, speaks of research in this area, offers insight about conclusions, and shares advice for the Highly Gifted and their managers.
To tickle your curiosities see the excerpts below. Better still, access the full article posted on Envisia Learning at the link below.
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EXCERPTS
High intelligence doesn’t necessarily mean career success: Many organizations have observed that “high potentials” can rise fast – only to later fail or crash spectacularly. What is going on?
Exceptionally smart people, it turns out, really “tick differently” – which may help explain why they can come across as too fast know-it-alls with a competitive (or self-absorbed) perfectionist streak.
Let call the IQ 130+ group the HGG (highly gifted group) and the baseline group of employees with IQs below 130 AGG (the average gifted group).
HGGs want influence – not power
HGGs put mind over matter
HGG may put what is true over what is right
HGGs are not exactly team players
As an HGG, consider the “extra” time others need, to come to a conclusion that they can endorse as an investment: You will save that time later when “your” idea requires others for implementation.
Despite their talent – and perhaps just because of it – HGGs are emotionally less stable – much in line with the “prima dona” stereotype we find in organizations: They exhibit less emotional balance, lower degrees of resilience under duress, and lower levels of self-confidence.
Envisia Learning - Highly Gifted? How NOT to Annoy Your Colleagues…. - June 7, 2013 by Yosh Beier :
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